http://www.jeffmerrick.net The Color of Truth is Gray Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:21:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Simple site to advertise the services provided by a small caretaking business in Florida. Included logo design. Visit: http://www.tropichomewatch.com Used: Photoshop, XHTML, CSS, mootools For: Tropic Homewatch http://www.jeffmerrick.net/2007/11/24/tropic-homewatch/ Book Cover for Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels. Worked with a provided photo and later a colorized version of the same photo. Woodcut typography was used to invoke a feeling of the era. The color version will eventually be published. Used: Illustrator, Photoshop For: University of Illinois Press http://www.jeffmerrick.net/2007/11/24/cowgirls/ This is some Actionscript that should allow you to connect to last.fm radio and tune into a station based on tag or artist. I was working on my other Flash project using the last.fm XML and realized it would be cool for artists' music to start playing when the user clicked ... http://www.jeffmerrick.net/2007/10/16/lastfm-radio-in-flash/ Wordpress site for Introduction to the History of Architecture course. Based on an original design by Mark Hauge Visit: password protected, check out the screenshots Used: XHTML, CSS, PHP, Wordpress For: UIUC School of Architecture http://www.jeffmerrick.net/2007/10/16/arch210/ As a RTS gamer, I find John Klima's The Great Game an interesting project to use as a starting point for examining how we relate to these games. Klima's project (which unfortunately crashes my browser, so I can't actually watch it) takes US Defense Department briefings and reproduces them in ... http://www.jeffmerrick.net/2007/09/24/virtual-war-and-real-war/ I finally got around to redesigning the entire site with Wordpress as the backend. I had been meaning to do it for a while, but since my New Media class requires a blog I finally got off my ass and did it. Getting Wordpress to work as a portfolio was ... http://www.jeffmerrick.net/2007/08/27/new-site-finally-launched/ In progress: This project is an attempt to create an intuitive user interface in flash to view dynamically updated personal information. Photos are pulled from the user's flickr account and top played albums are pulled from last.fm XML data. Currently only shows my latest photos and top albums. Still a ... http://www.jeffmerrick.net/2007/08/26/interactive-content/ Redesign of a car rental website with a gallery of available cars and form for reserving a car online. Visit: http://www.mahoganycarrentalsbvi.com Used: Photoshop, XHTML, CSS, PHP, scriptaculous For: Mahogany Car Rentals http://www.jeffmerrick.net/2007/08/26/mahogany-rentals/ Typography project designing spreads for an architecture article, The Eyes of the Skin. All images are hand-made with spray paint, markers, letraset and other tools. Formal and strict elements cover more organic imagery to communicate the overall concept of the article. Used: mixed media, InDesign For: Intermediate Design Course http://www.jeffmerrick.net/2007/08/26/eyes-of-the-skin/ Typography exercise in subjective design of a published interview, What is Design For? Used: InDesign For: Intermediate Design Course http://www.jeffmerrick.net/2007/08/26/interview/